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Glenn Capers


Premium (World), New York City

Captain Ahab

Captain Ahab is a fictional character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. They catch cod ,not whales.

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  • s. sabine krause 29/05/2015 10:12

    : )) a calm, reverent, also yearning gaze at the sea, judging the clouds, the gulls, the wind, the prospects for a good catch – will they bite today? he's a man of experience and of sane, circumspect judgement – authoritative and prudent, not a cynic, not a hurting, raging egomaniac like ahab! don't ask me why, but for some reason, i think ahab would be looking down – and quite literally so! – on the sea rather than up… but apart from all that, i really like this shot and its ingenious composition: the "upward movement" reaching all the way through the image, from port to starboard ; ), starting with the rigid pose of the old seadog captain, his hat, the clouds above him, and moving on the to the leviathan of an assistant or colleague… in any case it's an image that triggers volumes and volumes of fish story in an old fischkopp* like me… ; ) greetings, sabine.
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    *germ. = fish head; colloq. epithet for a native citizen of hamburg
  • Andreas K. Julian 13/05/2015 23:07

    ...looks like the Captain of the Titanic...
  • Janos Gardonyi 13/05/2015 17:14

    weirdos everywhere.... janos
  • Dieter K 12/05/2015 21:34

    I like it very much, it conveys a very special feeling to me, The contrast between young and old is impressive.
  • Randyderzweite 11/05/2015 13:10

    Excellent editing wich matches perfect to the shot! Captain Ahab was battered man ...
    Cheers,
    Hans
  • Sunnysideoflife5 11/05/2015 11:48

    A fairytale reminder, you got the right pic! Great work Glenn.
    Greetings Sunny
  • Rolf Pessel 11/05/2015 10:20

    I was reading the book quite often and I liked Gregory Peck in the movie from (guess) 56.

    LG Rolf
  • rschaefer 11/05/2015 0:30

    Looks like an old movie scene.
    I like that a lot!
    Greetings,
    Rebecca